Co-Teaching During Teacher Training Periods: Experiences of Finnish Special Education and General Education Teacher Candidates

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Table 1. Themes and sub-themes regarding experienced possibilities and challenges in the use of co-teaching during training.

Possibilities	Challenges
Joy, creativity, and learning in planning	Demanding to plan with and for “strangers”
Different views improve the quality Learn from each other Increased idea richness	Don’t know each other or the pupils Different personality and planning style Lack of planning time and supervision
Complementing roles and shared responsibilities	Established roles limit the collaboration
Different expertise leads to different roles Shared responsibility and divided workload	Risk for unclear and unequal responsibility Lack of certain knowledge
Facilitating pupil participation and differentiation	Ambivalence regarding benefits for pupils with IEPs
Easier to interact with all pupils Enable social participation Co-teaching models enable differentiation	Difficult to modify and individualize the content Pupils with IEPs may be less comfortable in the classroom